Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song
Tick, Judith2025
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Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Tick's compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald's complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre's mainstream.
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Author:
Tick, Judith, author
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.©2024.
Collation:
xxii, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781324105220 (paperback)
Dewey class:
782.42165092B/FIT
Language:
English
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BRN:
2725069